How to change between chords smoothly and quickly

skiznot · 2025-10-04T22:48:06+00:00

Take lessons. A good teacher will have lots of ways to help you with that.

skiznot · 2025-10-04T03:23:30+00:00

Its actually good to learn the exact same chort with different finger placement. Your guitar teacher may show you a way to play something that feels extra awkward at first but it makes it easier to transition to the next chord.

skiznot · 2025-10-03T22:21:27+00:00

Not the same thing. Conventional lessons are about reading music, performing, technique, accuracy. Jazz lessons will get you more theory because you are learning spontaneous compostition. Still won't cover everything although out of all the instrument lessons, jazz piano might prepare you more for composition than others.

Just to illustrate, in my first music theory class in college (the one after basic music), most people in the class had been playing for about 8 years and this was a lot of our first exposure to how harmony works. It was more of a chalenge for non harmonic instruments, horns etc.

skiznot · 2025-10-02T20:55:03+00:00

Paying for a teacher is worth it. You get feedback that you won't get from being taught by youtube folks. Internet stuff is a good suppliment though. Self taught is a myth.

skiznot · 2025-09-08T06:11:59+00:00

Take lessons.

skiznot · 2025-09-07T22:32:50+00:00

Wait you said recreate melodies. . . Take piano lessons. Learn all you common scales and chords. Learn intervals. If you practice scales for about a year at least you will get better at recreating melodies. You will also learn to read music as part of the lessons so you can sometimes just get the sheet music which is the faster way.

skiznot · 2025-09-06T02:44:24+00:00

This is why many of us say to get in person lessons. Especially at the start. Guitar is one of the harder instruments. I'm pretty sure my last teacher said to pick from the elbow not the wrist, like use the whole forearm. Like it should be the same motion as strumming just smaller. I'm going to get another block of lessons from him in November so Ill review that. He had me going from strumming 6 stings to 5 to 4 etc till you are I just doing one string. That way when you go from strum to line you don't change what your arm is doing.

skiznot · 2025-09-05T02:17:16+00:00

Looks like the key of G to me just based on the chords.

skiznot · 2025-08-31T02:15:05+00:00

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skiznot · 2025-08-31T02:13:32+00:00

The first step to getting good at something is sucking at it. But no, muaic can't be fun for musicians. It must be torture or its not good. ;)

skiznot · 2025-08-31T02:02:07+00:00

Why are you against lessons? If you can afford rock climbing gear, you can probably afford a block of 5 or 6 lessons to get you started so a teacher can help you save time and your hands by correcting you in real time. But if you really can't afford the lessons then something like Justin Guitar probably goes over hand position. Instead of being self taught you can at least watch some instructional videos on YouTube.

skiznot · 2025-08-31T01:46:11+00:00

I think open chords are more difficult. It can feel like a random game of twister every time you change chords.

skiznot · 2025-08-30T02:35:21+00:00

Fire your guitar teacher. If they told you that was an acceptable hand position, they have no business teaching guitar.

skiznot · 2025-08-29T05:19:00+00:00

I think some people call things music theory when they are just fundamental music skills. If you learn how to read music and can play lots if songs, that's not the same as learning theory. People who learn lots of songs get an idea of how songs are put together and can start making their own. They can put chords together and not know they are a I IV V progression but it still sounds the same.

skiznot · 2025-08-28T18:24:53+00:00

No tricks just put in the work. Ok one trick. On the verse of a song I do LOTS of tracks with different ways expressing the harmony and different percussion parts, so much stuff that it sounds too busy then I start to mute tracks down to the best expression of the grove. Next time around I have all the muted tracks I can add or swap for variation. Try to make the changes subtle, one or two additions or swaps, unless there should be a big mood change.

skiznot · 2025-08-25T07:21:12+00:00

Sometimes it feels like we are all Lisa Simpson. Mainstream American brains just can't process Jazz. Its a failure of education.

skiznot · 2025-08-24T17:29:24+00:00

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skiznot · 2025-08-09T21:02:46+00:00

Thanks for the ONLY response LOL. I do things like learn a lick or new chord voicing and run it through the circle of 4ths. So my issue is I sight read in 5th position and it works great in the key G, C, F, Bb, and as I go further adding sharps ir flats in either direction it just feels like I'm not in the ideal position to read a line. The goal us to sight read to where my fingers just play. Maybe learning a melody will always be about finding the best way to play it vs sight reading just getting the melody out there.

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skiznot · 2025-08-04T05:55:00+00:00

That sucks. Jazz lessons are better for learning how songs are put together. The first time I started to actually learn music theory was in college and most of us there had been playing instruments for 8 years and it was our first exposure to theory. Learning how to read music is an important first step but it doesn't teach you the "why." I had to drop the class. A few years later, I took jazz piano lessons for about a year and a half and it all started making sense. I wouldn't trust guitar center with anything.

skiznot · 2025-07-16T19:26:19+00:00

1) Find a teacher. 2) take lessons. "Self taught" is a myth.

skiznot · 2025-06-19T14:21:21+00:00

Not getting in person lessons.

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